ASK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR THEATRE DEPARTMENT, BUT WHAT YOUR THEATRE DEPARTMENT CAN DO FOR YOU

​In this collaborative workshop targeted towards teachers and school administrators, Mrs. Joy Ferrara will lead conversations on how to grow a theatre program to affect change with staff and students in their school district.

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Joy Ferrara has been an educator for more than 23 years.  She taught in the Commack School District for 10 years and became an Assistant Principal at Hauppauge Middle School in 2003.  Since 2010, Joy has been the Hauppauge High School Assistant Principal and has been an advocate for the Hauppauge Theatre program.  Working directly with Ruthie Pincus, Hauppauge’s Theatre Director, Joy has brought real-time school issues to the theatre students and charged them with creating relevant monologues and short vignettes to inform and engage the faculty and student body. 
Stage the Change is co-sponsored by Stage the Change, Inc.
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Hauppauge Public Schools.
Stage the Change programs are made possible with funds from the
Arts Reach Fund at Long Island Community Foundation, The New York Community Trust 
and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the
​Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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